[R] Ocr

[Shane Carey]

Yep, I seen that!! Just don't know which one is best!! Any who, I'll try
them out and see how it goes!! I'm sure I'll be back looking for help!!!
Rhanks

On Wednesday, July 27, 2016, boB Rudis <bob at rudis.net> wrote:

> https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/abbyyR/index.html
>
> https://github.com/greenore/ocR
>
> https://electricarchaeology.ca/2014/07/15/doing-ocr-within-r/
>
> that was from a Google "r ocr" search. So, yes, there are options.
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Shane Carey wrote:
> >
> >> Cool, thanks Jim!!
> >> I would love to be able to write my own script for this as I have many
> >> images/ pdf's in a folder and would like to batch process them using an
> R
> >> script!!
> >
> >
> > The underlying engine is "tesseract" which is also available as a
> > command-line tool and on other OSs. In principle, it is not hard to call
> it
> > with a system() command and then readLines() the resulting text.
> However, it
> > might be useful to play with the available options in the GUI first to
> see
> > what works best for your images.
> >
> >
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Shane,
> >>> FreeOCR is a really good place to start.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.paperfile.net/
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Shane Carey <careyshan at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>
> >>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anyone ever done any ocr in R?? I have some scanned images that I
> >>>
> >>> would
> >>>>
> >>>> like to convert to text!!
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Le gach dea ghui,
> >>>> Shane
> >>>>
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> >>
> >> --
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> >> Shane
> >>
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-- 
Le gach dea ghui,
Shane

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